What is it? Maybe a coyote?
Just got back home last night from latest trip to NWA. Pulled the game cam SD card today and found these pics. First one doesn't appear to be a leg from a dressed deer unless it is a shoulder that was buggered and whoever killed it left it with the carcass.
From the rear it was hard to tell if was a coyote, wild dog or possibly the neighbor's GSD. Later pics show side profile so definitely not the neighbors dog. Most coyotes I see are always scraggly/mangy looking. Not a wolf and not my outside dog who is a blue heeler. Looks too big to be a fox. I'm puzzled.
What say you?
This last pic is just for a smile. My cat is an inside cat so this isn't Cleo. Ghost cat?
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Yes, you sure can call them in the daylight. You can call and spotlight 'em at night too. Might be unwise to be out with a gun and spotlight at night when there's a deer season going on though.
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Coyote size live trap is $99 at Tractor Supply. Coyote would NOT survive to be "relocated" due to complications from Covid 19. Just trying to figure if sitting, calling, and maybe being successful is worth saving $99.
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Keep baiting him with deer scraps or if neighbor loses a calf or goat and tie the scraps to a anchor or tree with a wire so they cannot drag them off into the brush next to a clearing and place the feed close to the edge of the woods so they will feel safe getting close and they will come out when they can see the feed from a safe place, set up a game camera. You will see more than one. In really cold weather they will feed in daytime, really early or late in the day after they get used to knowing where the free meal is located.
Use a Fawn bleat call and use it really weak on the bleat
Wiley Yote is not a fool and hard to fool. The really wise one can actually smell steel traps. (smell the steel to avoid)
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Many of the trappers around here are using snares.
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Very difficult to live trap. One of the smartest critters around.
A critter carcass placed at the edge of the woods is best. Get a square of woven fence wire and stake it over the bait.
They will have to stay on the buffet a bit longer to get a happy meal.
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Neighbor on east side has been trapping racoons. I have noticed a decline in the freeloaders in the area where I have been feeding the deer. May see if he is interested in coyote pelts. Don't know if he has anything coyote sized.
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Speaking of racoon
I thought it turned out good just got it back today
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I bet that coyote hide would turn out good also
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danielgage: 31549214105627/comments/31549243704859
Speaking of racoon
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I thought it turned out good just got it back today
Looks great. How big was that racoon? Yep, if I get the coyote I will either get a full body mount or have the hide tanned. Looks extremely bushy in the pics so it should make a great rug/conversation piece.
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he was a good sized boar not the biggest I have seen but bigger than average
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I have seen several coyotes from my deer blind during my morning deer hunts right at sunrise.
If I hadn't been using a single shot muzzle loader, I'd of offed them. But when this season is over, I will specialize and do my best to decrease the yote population!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7de0zs05XU i use a call and they do work in the daytime but you have to be very good as the coyotes are much better at telling if a human is around. I use this brand of caller. If you were closer I would let you use mine.
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susie: 31549214105627/comments/31549274965403
https://forums.gunbroker.com/discussion/comment/11240843#Comment_11240843
Do you have to hunt 'em at night or can you get a call and bring them up in daylight? I'm not opposed to sitting in a blind and calling. For some reason 30 degrees at night just feels colder than 30 degrees during the day. I have a motion activated light that I put on the picnic table in deer camp for when I get up at 0430 and start stumbling around outside prepping to hit the woods. I could put it outside the blind so I could actually see the 'yote IF I have to hunt him in the dark.
Others have covered this pretty well...I have hunted them both during the day and at night...the ones in my close proximity are pretty aware of me so it has become much harder to call them in....Yote hunting for me is just a good excuse to go sit in the weeds and enjoy nature...
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I had rather bust a big yote than a big racked deer any day.
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Butchdog2: 31549214105627/comments/31549218740763
I had rather bust a big yote than a big racked deer any day.
+100
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I see zero way that a coyote would walk into a live trap.
They are callable but do also get wise to calls also.
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CaneyRiverDog: 31549214105627/comments/31549303085467
That is one healthy 'yote. Bet that's what the sneaky one in my pics would look like in the light.
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This was a healthy yote! Weighed 35 pounds. Had him as a pet for 7 years.
Called him “Cody”. Cody the coyote. He was quite a character.
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